The Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission has dismissed a complaint filed against three Republican lawmakers who signed a secret sexual harassment settlement last year.
The commission voted to dismiss complaints against Reps. Brian Linder, Jim DeCesare and Michael Meredith. A complaint against former House Speaker Jeff Hoover will continue.
The four lawmakers signed a secret sexual harassment settlement last year involving a woman who once worked for the House Republican Caucus. Hoover resigned as speaker in January and the other three lost their leadership positions. Hoover has denied sexual harassment, but said he did send inappropriate but consensual text messages.
Lawyers for the three say DeCesare and Linder sent text messages to the woman who made the allegations while Meredith said something "vulgar" to her.
